The chant echoed around the concession stands in the bowels of the Parc Olympique Lyonnais (also nicknamed Stade des Lumières) at half time.

A man who died in a road accident this morning tragically lost a teenage son in another car crash involving a former Irish rugby star almost 10 years ago.

A house at the centre of a murder-suicide in Charleville, Co Cork, remains standing despite pleas from the bereaved family to demolish it.

Although raised in a loving home and despite reassurance from his parents that he was loved, adopted Jonathan O’Driscoll was a tortured soul in the months before he killed his twin brothers and took his own life.

The school of Thomas and Patrick O’Driscoll, who were found dead in their home just outside Charleville, Co Cork yesterday, has described the twins as "loving, energetic and full of fun".

A publican’s bid to have Allied Irish Banks wound up over non-payment of an alleged €40,380 debt has been dismissed by the High Court.

A well-trained gang with mechanical expertise “popped” 30 safety air bags from 26 cars, mostly new models, which were parked in the forecourt of a garage in Charleville, Co Cork.

Students from across the country are to converge on mid-Cork to demonstrate their acting skills in the All-Ireland Transition Year Drama Festival.

A METAL worker appeared in court charged with the sexual assault of a woman in her 60s in Charleville, Co Cork.

IN response to Sean de Paor (Letters, July 26), I would like to point out that Young Fine Gael held its national conference in Charleville, Co Cork, last November, with 500 young people from all over Ireland in attendance.

THEY withstood the unwanted attentions of the IRA and well over two centuries of inhospitable weather, but statues of Oliver Cromwell and William of Orange in a Co Cork estate have fallen to a gang of thieves.

Donal Hickey on manipulating cloud to produce rain.

A BRAZILIAN working in Charleville, Co Cork, was yesterday acquitted at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Limerick of murdering a fellow countryman.

A woman has been awarded a record £85,000 in an equality case against Golden Vale in Charleville, Co Cork.